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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Ron Witte's guest studio ended yesterday - considering my graphics, it's no surprise that Bob Somol led off his comments with Sarah Palin, with Italian restaurants as a back-up. Anyway, here's the goods, as they say - the idea was to use form and graphics to create spaces that connected ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Having a four-day guest studio exercise with Ron Witte (http://wwarchitecture.com). We're talking about intersecting spaces that allow you to be in two rooms at the same time. In the exercise, we're manipulating form and graphics to do just that - here's my second attempt:
That's it for now. Thank you for ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Just got done with my midterm review - a lot of good feedback, but it looks like I'll have to start pretty much from scratch.
The project is live-work housing for artists. One thing I think I'll keep is the communal space on top:
I also kind of like the effect I ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
I've been thinking what my long-term architectural project could be. I don't care much about form, except as the icing on the functional cake, so to speak. Then again bad icing can spoil a perfectly decent cake. Though I've often been accused of being a functionalist, that's not it either. ...
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Another star performance by Lebbeus Woods:
"Architecture has become more popular today than ever before. Its popularity does not come from the ways it improves the everyday lives of most people—as modernists like Gropius once hoped it would—but rather because of the ‘brand names’ now associated with its status as a ...
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